History of art . KoRiN (1660-1716). Portrait. (From The Kokka.) when the descriptive element tends to absorb theensemble instead of remaining subordinate to it. Buthow is that moment to be determined.^^ Character andcaricature oscillate around a purely theoretical pointwhich all eyes do not locate in the same place. For aJapanese eye, doubtless, character continues aftercaricature has already begun for us. What carries the Japanese artist beyond the mark,perhaps, is the ironical turn of his mind and, at thesame time, his miraculous skill, which he does not ^ With 138 MEDIA
History of art . KoRiN (1660-1716). Portrait. (From The Kokka.) when the descriptive element tends to absorb theensemble instead of remaining subordinate to it. Buthow is that moment to be determined.^^ Character andcaricature oscillate around a purely theoretical pointwhich all eyes do not locate in the same place. For aJapanese eye, doubtless, character continues aftercaricature has already begun for us. What carries the Japanese artist beyond the mark,perhaps, is the ironical turn of his mind and, at thesame time, his miraculous skill, which he does not ^ With 138 MEDIAEVAL ART sufficiently distrust. When, in a flash, he seizes formin movement, he gives an impression of infallibility,though one must hasten to add that this applies moreespecially to his representation of the smaller in the case of Sosen, a savage and pure painterwho lived in the woods like a wild creature, so as tosurprise clusters of monkeys as they huddle together
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